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Patented Oct. 19,1897.

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CHARLES H. HOFFMANN, OF PERRYSBURG, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF 'TYVO- TIIIRDS TO P. J. PITSON AND JOHN G. HOFFMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

BU TTER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 591,970, dated October 19, 1897.

Application filed April 12, 1897. Serial No. 631,795. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. HOFFMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Perrysburg, in the county of Wood and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Butter- Outter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in cutters such as are especially adapted for use for cutting butter, cheese, &c., and has for its object to provide a device of this character of a simple and inexpensive nature, which shall be provided with means for conveniently holding and straining the cutting wire or blade of the device.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the construction and arrangement of the various parts of the improved cutting device, whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is made simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features will be carefully defi ned in the claims.

In order that my improvements may be the better understood, 1 have shown in the accompanying drawings a cutting device con structed in accordance with my invention, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the improved cutter. Fig. 2 is aperspective view showing the frame of the improved device, the cutting wire or blade being detached. Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary View showing the means for securing the cutting wire or blade to one end of the frame of the device. Fig. a is a fragmentary sectional View drawn to an enlarged scale and showing the means for straining thecutting wire or blade. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the cutting blade or wire detached.

In the drawings, 1 indicates the frame of the improved cutting device, this frame being formed of wood, metal, or any other convenient material and being, as shown in the drawings, of semicircular shape. The bow or yoke shape of the frame 1 is useful in a device of this character, because its ends provide means for the attachment of the cutterblade, and the frame serves also as a handle for the convenient manipulation of the implement. One end of the frame 1 is provided with an opening extending through it, as indicated at 2, this opening being designed to receive one end of the cutting wire or blade 3, said wire or blade being, as shown in the detail view, Fig. 5, provided at one end with an angular portion 4, adapted to be inserted in said opening 2 and having at its opposite end an enlargement or head 5, which may be integrally formed therewith.

On the end of the frame at which the opening 2 is formed is secured a knife-blade 2, projecting from the end of the frame and adapted for use in lifting the pieces of butter when cut, and also for tasting the butter, and in said blade 2 is formed an opening 2 through which the wire or blade 3 passes, the under side of the blade 2 being formed with a kerf 2 to seat the end portion, of the wire or blade 3, as clearly shown in the drawings. V

The opposite end of the frame 1 of the device is formed with a passage or bore 6, extending through it and adapted to receive the shank '7 of a straining-bolt having screwthreads at its outer end, as shown at 9,whereon screws a wing-nut 10. The inner end of the bolt 7 is formed with a head 10, having flattened side faces, as shown in the drawings, said head being arranged to project from the lower side of the bolt and having in its projecting portion a groove or kerf 11, adapted to receive the headed end portion of the cutting wire or blade 3.

The head of the straining-bolt 7 is arranged to fit between lugs 12, projecting fromthe inner surface of the end of the frame 1, whereat the passage 6 is formed, and the head 5 of the cutting wire or blade 3 is arranged to engage the shoulder formed by the depending lower portion of the head of the strainingbolt, as clearly shown in the'drawings.

In operation, when it is desired to insert the wire or blade 3 in the device, the angular end portion 4 of said wire is engaged with the opening 2 in the frame, the body portion of said wire being arranged to project transversely across the frame between the end portions thereof and the head 5 of the wire or blade being engaged in the kerf in the head of the straining-bolt, after which the Wing nut on the threaded end of said bolt is turned so as to cause the head of the bolt to move between the lugs 12 of the frame in a direction parallel with the length of the Wire or blade 3, as will be readily understood, so as to strain the wire between the. ends of the frame and place the same under the required tension.

From the above description it will be seen that my improved cutting device is of an extremely simple and inexpensive nature, and is especially well adapted for use in cutting butter, cheese, and the like, and it will also be obvious from the above description that the invention is capable of considerable modification without material departure from its principles and spirit, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form and arrangement of the parts herein set forth. I

\Vhat I claim is Y 1. A butter-cutting implement comprising a bowed or yoke-shaped frame adapted to serve as a handle and provided, near one terminal, with a transverse bolt-passage and at its other end with a cutter-receiving opening, a headed cutter-wire having an angular end fitted in said cutter-receiving opening of the frame, and a straining-bolt fitted in the boltopening in said frame and provided with'the spaced jaws to receive the headed end of the cutter-wire, substantially as described, for;

the purposes set forth.

2. Abutter-cutting implement, comprising a yoke-shaped frame, a knife-blade fitted to passes through the same and the opening 2 of the frame, to clamp the blade to said frame,

and means for adj ustably connecting the other end of said wire to the frame, as and for the purpose described.

4. A butter-cuttingimplement comprising a yoke-shaped frame having, at one end, a pair of lugs disposed on opposite sides of a transverse perforation, a headed bolt passing through said perforation to have the head thereof confined between said lugs, a knifeblade fitted against the other end of said frame, and a cutter-Wire headed at one end to connect to the headed bolt and having its other end fastened to the frame to clamp the knife-blade thereto, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. HOFFMANN.

Witnesses:

P. WETZEL, FRED BOETSCH. 

